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Organization Ideas

Naming Conventions

Some ideas for how to name items that are placed in Clowder:

• When able, include the name of the Sensor in the title of Spaces, Collections, and Datasets
• Including the name of the sensor may make it is easier to search for items

Using the Sections Within Clowder

It would be good to have a general organization methodology moving forward.

This section will contain various ideas for organization.

Note: there are three basic sections within Clowder:

• Spaces
• Collections
• Datasets

One idea for utilizing and organizing these sections:

• Spaces
  • Named after each Sensor or a general category (e.g.: How To Documentation, Images, etc.)
  • Contains Collections
  • Can have an image appear in the listing on Clowder
• Collections
  • Naming
    • Include the Sensor
    • Include any grouping information (e.g.: date range, etc.)
  • Contains Datasets
• Datasets
  
  • Naming
    • When possible, the name would include the name of the Sensor
    • Some of these are auto-generated, and are therefore auto-named
  • Contains raw data and parsed data
  • Should be placed in Collections

This is an example illustrating this idea:

• This is based upon the Flux Tower data (information about this dataset is available in this Wiki space at Flux Tower Data)
• Space
  • There is only one of these for this Space
  • Space Name: Flux Tower Data
  • Space Description: Flux Tower located at [ location-description ]
  • Space Image: Suggestion - provide an image of the site or the instrument or a logo (if available)
• Collection
  • There can be several of these for this Space
  • Collection Name: Flux Tower Data Files [ date-range ]
    • The date-range could be years or months depending upon the size of the dataset
  • Collection Description: Collection of Data Files for [ date-range ]
  • Collection Content: This will contain all relevant Datasets for this collection
    • Example A: date-range is a year
      • If date-range is 2010
      • Then Datasets would be all the Datasets that include 2010 data
    • Example B: date-range is January 2010 to March 2010
      • If date-range is January 2010 to March 2010
      • Then Datasets would be all the Datasets that include 2010 data from January to March
• Datasets
  • There can be several of these for each Collection in the Space
  • Dataset Name: Flux Tower Dataset [ information ]
    • Some of these are auto-generated and may have a different naming convention
    • The information would just describe the general content of the Dataset (type of measurement, type of data, etc.)
  • Dataset Content: This will contain any relevant files

Organizations Tasks

General Tasks that may be completed:

• Removing any extraneous or duplicated data
• Where possible, moving and renaming items to fit the decided upon organization methodology